
America's Billionaires... What Should We Feel - Admiration? Annoyance? Does America Need More Or Less Billionaires?
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<p>The Best Paragraph I've Read:</p> <p><br></p> <p>“But they don’t have ‘F-you money’ anymore,” a former reporter said of the Bancrofts. “They’re nice and rich, but not ungodly so. It matters to the younger generation.”</p> <p><br></p> <p>This paragraph comes from a 2007 New Yorker article titled "Paper Chase." It was written by Ben Mcgrath. </p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/14/paper-chase-3-2">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/05/14/paper-chase-3-2</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Another Best Paragraph I've Read:</p> <p><br></p> <p>“The people who love him and the people who hate him are equally irrational,” said Ashlee Vance, Mr. Musk’s biographer. “It reminds me of Steve Jobs. It’s way beyond business or celebrity. It strikes me as religious, more than anything. His fans are acolytes.”</p> <p><br></p> <p>This paragraph come from the New York Times. The article is titled "Elon Musk, Blasting Off in Domestic Bliss." The article is written by Maureen Dowd.</p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/style/elon-musk-maureen-dowd.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/style/elon-musk-maureen-dowd.html</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Zac and Don discuss how our society views billionaires. They discuss whether we should admire or be annoyed by them.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Another Best Paragraph I've Read:</p> <p><br></p> <p>“The things he’s done on the business side I would tell you have all been positive. Does that offset all the harm he’s done? Economically, yes, for me, that’s been beneficial. Socially, how it hurts people, how I view the world, no, I would rather have less money to have a better world. But, OK, my punishment is I have more money to have a more f---ed world.”</p> <p>I asked whether he thought it was fair for the richest to keep getting richer.</p> <p>“I don’t know,” he said. “Is war fair? Do people die in a war? Yes. You’ve got a virus that is affecting people. It’s pretty clear who it affects.” He meant people who were old
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America's Billionaires... What Should We Feel - Admiration? Annoyance? Does America Need More Or Less Billionaires?
Saber Chaib